FOUR people died and three were missing after their boat sank off Cabinda in north Angola, Portugal’s Lusa news agency reported Monday. Fourteen people were rescued after the incident on Saturday. The vessel sank in heavy seas after leaving the port of Cabinda for the town of Soyo in the Angolan province of Zaire. – […]
Pretoria | Wednesday A SENIOR arms official on Wednesday ruled out the possibility that bias or manipulation could have influenced the final selection of suppliers in South Africa’s multi-billion dollar arms deal. “There was no possibility of bias,” David Griesel, acquisition head of former state-owned arms manufacturer Armscor, told a public probe into alleged corruption […]
Gail Appleson, New York | Wednesday A SAUDI man will spend the rest of his life in prison for helping carry out the 1998 bombing of the United States embassy in Kenya after jurors disagreed on Tuesday about whether he should be executed, with some saying lethal injection was too humane. The Manhattan federal jury […]
Johannesburg | Wednesday SOUTH Africa’s National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said on Tuesday that talks to end a three-week strike at copper producer Palabora Mining Co remained deadlocked. ”It is becoming more and more apparent…that Palabora Mining’s management is not serious in seeing to the resolution of the strike,” the NUM said in a statement. […]
United Nations | Wednesday THE Security Council have begun to study a proposal to send more UN peacekeepers to the Democratic Republic of Congo and prepare them for new tasks such as policing after foreign armies withdraw. The proposal came in a report by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan which said the peacekeeping force, known […]
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It seems that Sharon Stone’s life does not imitate art so much as a bad Hollywood B-movie. After last week’s legal pot-boiler, which saw the <i>Casino</i> star launching a lawsuit against the producers of the aborted <i>Basic Instinct</i> sequel, events spun from the ugly to the ridiculous.
SOUTH Africa’s cash-strapped Department of Defence (DOD) was not ready to deal with a multi-project defence package in the late 1990’s, a senior military official testified on Tuesday. Rear-Admiral Keg Verster, the first witness to testify at a probe into alleged corruption surrounding the country’s $5,5-billion arms procurement deal, said the defence department at the […]
THE Daily Mail & Guardian has been selected by the authoritative Forbes.com Best of the Web magazine as one of the world?s finest sites. The DM&G was placed second, behind The Guardian website, in the foreign newspaper papers section. Forbes said it was ?easy to see why? Nelson Mandela apparently requested the newspaper while imprisoned. […]
Peter Kononczuk, London | Tuesday SOUTH African President Thabo Mbeki will arrive in Britain on Tuesday for a state visit during which he will seek badly-needed investment and may face questions on his policies on Zimbabwe and Aids. It is the second state visit to London by a South African leader in five years, following […]